SOLEMN WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1943, Page 4

SOLEMN WARNING

PUNISHMENT FOR NAZI CRIMINALS TERMS OF DECLARATION ALLIED INTENTION CLEARLY STATED (British Official Wireless.) (Received 'Phis Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, November 1. At the moment, when- the Germans in savage desperation are committing the most horrible crimes as they are forced to re- ■ treat, the three Powers at the Moscow conference issued a solemn warning of their intention to get Germans punished in the countries in which they perpetrated the atrocities. The criminals whose offences have no particular location will be punished by a joint Allied decision. The declaration states: “The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they overrun and from which they are being steadily expelled. The brutalities of Hitlerite domination are no new thing and all people in territories in their grip have suffered from the worst form of government by terror. What is new is that many of these territories are now being released by the advancing armies of the liberating Powers and in their desperation, the recoiling Huns are redoubling their ruthless cruelties. Thus the Germans who take part in wholesale shootings of Pblish officers or the execution of French, Dutch and Belgian and Norwegian hostages, Cretan peasants or who shared in slaughters inflicted on the people of Poland or in territories of the Soviet Unionnow being swept clear of the enemywill know that they will be brought back to the scene of their crimes and judged on the spot by the peoples they outraged. Let those who hitherto refrained from staining their hands with innocent blood beware lest they join J.he ranks of the guilty, for most assuredly the three Allied Powers will pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and deliver them to the accuser in order that justice may be done.”